a. and sb. Now rare. [ad. L. jūdiciāri-us, f. jūdici-um judgment: see -ARY, and cf. F. judiciaire (14–15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).] = JUDICIAL. A. adj.
1. Of or belonging to legal or formal judgment, or to a judge in his capacity of giving such judgment; pertaining to judicature or to courts of law. = JUDICIAL A. 1.
1611. Cotgr., Iudiciaire,… iudiciarie, iudiciall, done in Court.
1612. T. Taylor, Comm. Titus ii. 13. Although he shall exercise his iudiciarie power.
1670. Blount, Law Dict., Ded. Persons, dignified with the Judiciary-scarlet Robe.
1787. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1894), IV. 475. I like the organization of the government into Legislative, Judiciary and Executive.
1876. Digby, Real Prop., ii. 64. Laws … are made indirectly by the tribunals in deciding upon particular cases…. [These] are sometimes called judge-made, or judiciary laws.
† b. = JUDICIAL A. 1 b. Obs.
1699. Burnet, 39 Art., vii. (1700), 101. The Judiciary Parts of the Law were those that related to them as they were a Society of Men.
† c. = JUDICIAL A. 1 c. Obs.
1656. R. Robinson, Christ all, 425. It is a judiciary hand of God upon the Papists.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, III. 24. Judiciarie Hardnesse of heart and Blindnesse of Minde.
† 2. Having the function of judging; deciding as judge or arbiter: = JUDICIAL A. 2. Obs.
1690. Child, Disc. Trade (1694), 146. So many of the said Judiciary Merchants as heard the said Cause and Causes, and signed the Judgments or final Decrees in them.
b. = JUDICIAL A. 2 b.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., III. xxii. (1809), 337. The first written injunction of judiciary combats that we meet with, is in the laws of Gundebald, A. D. 501.
1826. Digby, Broadst. Hon. (1829), I. Godefridus, 273. The Clergy of Spain … instead of compurgatory oaths and iudiciary combats, ordained the proofs by witnesses and regular examination.
† 3. Forming a judgment or opinion, discerning: = JUDICIAL A. 4. Obs.
a. 1631. Donne, 2nd Serm. Gen. i. 26. I have a power to judge, a judiciarie, a discretive power.
1656. Stanley, Hist. Philos., v. (1701), 180/2. This Judgment may not unfitly be termed Judiciary.
† b. Of, or in reference to, astrology: = JUDICIAL A. 4 b. Also, Pertaining to the giving of judgments or decisions by any kind of divination, as ‘physiognomy.’ Obs.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, VI. 315. What vaine studies, exercise (for most part) our iudiciarie Astronomers, by calculating nativities, foretelling events…?
1640. Bp. Reynolds, Passions, ix. 78. All which … I include under the name of Iudiciarie Physiognomie.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), III. VII. vii. 327. The wild chimeras of judiciary astrology.
† c. Rhet. = JUDICIAL A. 4 d. Obs.
1776. G. Campbell, Philos. Rhet., I. 17. Three sorts of orations, the deliberative, the judiciary and the demonstrative.
B. sb. [Cf. med.L. jūdiciāria, jūdiciārius sbs.]
† 1. An art of divination: see A. 3 b. Obs.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xxv. 382. What Art mooued Iacob to say it?… If yee say Phiznomie or Iudiciarie, the good old man was blind.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits (1616), 183. All the sciences belonging to the imagination … as the Mathematickes, Astrologie, Arithmeticke, Perspectiue, Iudiciarie, and the rest.
† b. A judicial astrologer. Obs.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 136. May not the morose judiciaries be thus urged?
2. † a. A place or court of judicature. rare.
1681. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen. (1693), 780. A Judiciary or place of Judgment.
b. = JUDICATURE 3.
1802. M. Cutler, in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888), II. 81. He at length pointed out … the impossibility of a government being supported without an independent judiciary.
1875. Gladstone, Glean., VI. lxxxiii. 185. That strength depends on the magistracy, the police, the judiciary, the standing army.
1885. Law Times, LXXIX. 83/1. Head of the Irish magistracy and chief of the judiciary.
